Special Session on Personalization of Robot’s Multimodal Behavior
The success of personal robots is related to their ability to autonomously tailor their behaviour according to the individual’s culture, preferences, and cognitive and physical abilities. Personalisation can significantly enhance human-robot interactions in various real-world scenarios by increasing engagement through tailored content, building trust and rapport, improving adherence to the interaction, and enhancing task performance so configuring such a technology is a viable means for inclusiveness. Nonetheless, developing robots capable of doing so necessitates endowing them with specific perceptual capabilities on multimodal inputs and reasoning capabilities along with designing them with the main stakeholders to ensure that their needs can be properly encountered. The special session on Personalization of Robot’s Multimodal Behavior aims to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers from areas including, but not limited to, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, robotics, and sociology, to share and discuss current approaches to empowering robots with adaptive and learning capabilities to foster research and development of robotic solutions specifically designed for meeting the individual’s unique needs.
How to submit a special session paper:
Special session papers follow the same submission process and timeline as the ICMI main track papers. In the submission system, please show your intent to have your paper considered for this special session by selecting the appropriate checkbox when entering your paper’s information.
Go to submission site <https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/icmi24a>
Call for Special Sessions
The ICMI 2024 organizing committee invites proposals for Special Sessions to be held during the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024) in San José, Costa Rica. ICMI is the premier international forum that brings together multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction research. Multimodal AI encompasses technical challenges in machine learning and computational modeling such as representations, fusion, data, and systems.
Important Dates
| Special Session Proposal Submission Deadline | February 18th, 2024 |
| Notification of Acceptance | February, 2024 |
Special Session Proposals
Special sessions provide an opportunity to explore emerging topics within multimodal interaction and are a key part of this year’s conference program. We are seeking proposals that will enhance the conference’s diversity and offer valuable insights into the conference theme of “Equitability and environmental sustainability in multimodal interaction technologies”.
Prospective special session organizers are invited to submit proposals via icmi2024-specialsession-chairs@acm.org. Special Session Proposals should include the following information:
- Title: A title that shows the relevance of the session for the ICMI community and the novelty of the chosen topic.
- Aims and scope: Explain why the chosen topic is novel and relevant, with the potential to contribute to the growth of the ICMI community and/or is aligned with this year’s conference theme.
- Tentative speakers: A list of prospective contributing authors with tentative titles for their presentations. Special Sessions are normally expected to have 4 to 6 papers. While there is some flexibility for invited keynote and industry talks, the majority of the special session should consist of peer-reviewed papers.
- Organizers and bios: A short bio of the session organizers including their experience in the topic of the Special Session.
The primary criteria in evaluating the special session will include the relevance of the topic, the quality and track record of the proposers and speakers, diversity, the coherence of the proposal, and the expected value it will bring to the conference. We prioritize proposals that meet these criteria and welcome submissions from underrepresented communities.
The organizers of accepted special sessions will actively participate in the high-quality peer review process for submitted papers, following ICMI standards for the main track papers. They will serve as Area Chairs (ACs) for their proposed sessions, being responsible for tasks such as assigning reviewers and facilitating discussion phases. Papers submitted to an accepted Special Session will follow the same review process as the main conference track papers, including the same submission system (PCS), formatting guidelines (short or long papers), notification dates, and a rigorous peer review process.
For any questions and further information about the Special Sessions, please email icmi2024-specialsession-chairs@acm.org.
We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in San José, Costa Rica, for ICMI 2024!